Dame Shirley Porter
Shirleymander

Shirleymander

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2009
  • 1 episode

A tragic comedy depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as 'The Westminster Whirlwind' in the Eighties. Stars Tracy-Ann Oberman, Maggie Steed, Bruce Alexander, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Stephen Hogan and more.

Press clippings

Tracy-Ann Oberman plays Dame Shirley Porter with style in Gregory Evans's bold drama of power, personality, ambition, delusion and downfall. Dame Shirley ran Westminster City Council in the Thatcher years and, she hoped, in similar resolute style. But Dame Shirley, in this account, lacks the brain to count the consequences of her actions which is why, after selling off graveyards and council flats, she's astonished to be beaten at the polls and doesn't foresee how an assiduous local government employee could dig up enough evidence to make her flee the country.

Gillian Reynolds, The Telegraph, 27th November 2009

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